{"id":5017,"date":"2025-09-17T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/oligarchical-abuse-in-the-missouri-capitol-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:00:31","slug":"oligarchical-abuse-in-the-missouri-capitol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/oligarchical-abuse-in-the-missouri-capitol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oligarchical abuse in the Missouri Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n

For nearly three decades I have been a volunteer constitutional conservative, small government, free market watchdog at the Missouri Capitol, and in all that time I have never seen the level of abuse of power I witnessed during the two special sessions the governor called this summer.<\/p>\n

Last week the Missouri Senate rammed two monumental and controversial bills through without allowing an opportunity for any real deliberation. No amendments were allowed from either party in committee or in the chamber, and for changes to the initiative petition process, not a single minute of discussion or debate was allowed on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

Normal rules were suspended, and it was made clear by Republican leadership that party members had better toe the line. One of only two senators to buck the party line was punished immediately after he voted no.<\/p>\n

That all happened in the Second Extraordinary Session of 2025.<\/p>\n

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Missouri lawmakers pass gerrymandered congressional map, initiative petition limits<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Before that, Gov. Mike Kehoe called the legislature together in June to pass legislation that would provide public subsidies to build privately owned facilities (e.g. headquarters and training facilities) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals, in spite of constitutional prohibitions of a \u201cgrant of public money\u201d to \u201cany private person, association or corporation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Mike Moon, Rep. Bryant Wolfin, and myself are suing to get that bill struck down by the courts. (See: Moon v. State, case number 25AC-CC05910)<\/p>\n

That subsidy bill may cost Missouri taxpayers over a billion dollars if the courts let it stand.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of money, but it pales in comparison to what the politicians are attempting to do with the second \u201cextraordinary session\u201d the governor called in September. The second session is an attempt to grow government and party power like never before in Missouri history.<\/p>\n

The two pieces of legislation would concentrate power in the hands of a ruling class in total contradiction to founding principles.<\/p>\n

Understand this: men like Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine disdained oligarchy. The war they fought was against the oligarchical rule of King George and a parliament that was unconstrained by a written constitution. Through policies of mercantilism (we call it crony capitalism or corporatism today) the \u201cfavorites\u201d of the king were granted largess at the expense of the Peoples\u2019 lives and liberty.<\/p>\n

Yes, much like subsidies for private sports franchises.<\/p>\n

The Founders\u2019 solution to oligarchy was a Constitutional Republic in which \u201call political power is vested in and derived from the people\u201d (Mo. Cont. Art. I Sec. 1) and government that exists at the \u201cconsent of the governed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hallmark of the Founders\u2019 vision is a system that prevents the concentration of political power. Separate jurisdictions for federal and state government, three distinct branches of government and a bicameral legislature, distributed power, and constitutionally proscribed \u201cchecks\u201d on power were designed to prevent oligarchy.<\/p>\n

The people, themselves, also had a \u201ccheck\u201d \u2014 they could \u201cvote the bums out\u201d if they saw public officials abusing power.<\/p>\n

By the turn of the 20th Century, the people in about half the states decided that voting was not an adequate check on government power. Like today, the party machines and big money interests could \u201cbuy\u201d elections. So the people of those states amended their constitutions to allow themselves, independent of the government, to repeal laws they thought were oppressive by referendum, or to build taller fences around the power of government with constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petition.<\/p>\n

The legislation weakening the initiative petition process effectively takes that \u201ccheck\u201d away from the people of Missouri. It virtually guts the initiative petition \u201ccheck\u201d on government power.<\/p>\n

It makes it virtually impossible for citizen proposed amendments to be approved, but allows the legislature, which is unduly influenced by contract lobbyists and deep pocket special interests, to propose amendments that can be approved with support from just the urban centers of the state, leaving most of rural Missouri with little voice.<\/p>\n

In the same \u201cextraordinary session\u201d our esteemed \u201crepresentatives\u201d in Jefferson City passed a gerrymandered congressional district map that, I believe, was without constitutional authority. The new map effectively disenfranchises both urban and rural voters by lumping in Kansas City and a swath of rural counties as far east as Maries County, north of Rolla.<\/p>\n

That map does not result in districts that are \u201cas compact\u2026 as may be\u201d as required by Article III Section 45 of the Missouri Constitution.<\/p>\n

Like the gutting of the initiative petition process, the gerrymandered map is designed to be oligarchical concentration of power in the hands of the current ruling class. That happens to be Republicans now, buy rest assured, Democrats are taking notes and will do the same once they are in power again.<\/p>\n

Missouri politicians have once again proven Lord Action\u2019s maxim: \u201cPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock\/Missouri Independent). For nearly three decades I have been a volunteer constitutional conservative, small government, free market watchdog at the Missouri Capitol, and in all that time I have never seen the level of abuse of power I witnessed during the two special sessions the governor called this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOligarchical abuse in the Missouri Capitol - WestplexNews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/oligarchical-abuse-in-the-missouri-capitol-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oligarchical abuse in the Missouri Capitol - WestplexNews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock\/Missouri Independent). 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